Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, recently visited Seme border en route Cotonou, Republic of Benin, to check on Yoruba nation activist, Mr. Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho.
Igboho advocated Yoruba nation to resist Fulani herdsmen’s tyranny against his people in Oyo State.
It should be recalled that fully armed officials of the Department of State Services raided the Ibadan residence of Igboho, killed two, and nabbed 12 of his aides on July 1, 2021.
Igboho later fled to the Republic of Benin but was nabbed with his wife, Ropo, by the International Criminal Police Organisation at the Cadjehoun Airport in Cotonou on their way to Germany on July 19, 2021.
Ropo was later released and Igboho faced charges which border on illegal migration but he sought asylum in Benin Republic in a bid to evade the Nigerian Government’s request to extradite him so he could face allegations of stockpiling arms which he denied.
He was recently released from detention in Benin Republic on the conditions that he won’t hold any rally and can’t leave Cotonou.
According to a reliable source, Soyinka was mobbed by a crowd while he was waiting to perfect immigration formalities and asked where he was headed repeatedly.
The Nobel Laureate responded that he was visiting Igboho to “break the Muslim fast with him.”
The crowd reminded him that neither he nor Ighoho is a Muslim and he stated that it made no difference.
He however added that he had wanted to see the embattled Igboho, to sympathize with his predicament.
Soyinka said: “Ramadan is as good as any other season to express non-denominational solidarity.”
